Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-23

fallenp If "A manufactures of telescopes
drop a telescope On the floor and il
breaks, can he not mend it again so
YOU can see through itp And if God
drops the human eve into the dust, the
eye which he originally fashioned, can
He not restore itP Aye. if the manu-
facturer of the telescope by a change
of the glass and a change of focus can
make a better glass than that which
was originally constructed. and actual
ly improve it, do you not think the
fashloner of the human eye may i'm
prove its sight and multiply the natural
eye by the thousandfold additional
forces OF the resurrection eyep
"Why should it be thought by you an
incredible thing that God should raise
the dead?" Things all around us sug-
gest it. Out of what grew all these
flowers! Out Of the mould and the
earth. Resurrected! Resurrected!
The radiant butterfly, where did it
come from? The loathsome caterpil-
lar. That albatros that smites the tenn
pest with its wing, where did it come
from? A senseless shell. Near Ber-
gerac, France, in a Celtic tomb under
a block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand years.
The explorer took the flower seed and
planted it, and it came up; it bloomed
in bluebell and heliotrope. Two thou
sand years ago buried, yet resurrected.
A traveller says he found in a mummy
PIT in Egypt garden peas that had been
buried there three thousand years ago.
He brought them out and on the 4th Of
June, 1884, he planted them, and in
thirty days they sprang up. Buried
three thousand years, yet resurrected.
''Why should it be thought a thing in
credible with you that God should raise
the deadp"
Where did all this silk come from
the silk that adorns your persons and
your bomesp In the hollow of a staff
a Greek missionary brought from China
to Europe the ~progenitors of these
worms that now supply the silk mar
kets of many nations. The paseantry
of
HAMMERED HOST
and the luxurious articles of CONNER
cial emporium blazing out from the
silk worms And who shall be sur
prised if out Of this insignificant earthly
body, this insignificant earthly life. our
bodies unfold into something worthy of
the coming eternities? Put silver into
diluted nitre and it dissolves. Is the
silver gone forever? No. Put in some
pieces of copper and the silver reap
pears. If one force dissolves another
force organizes.
''Why should it be thought a thing
Incredible with YOU that God should
raise the deadP" The insects flew and
the worms crawled last autumn feebler
and feebler, and then stopped. They
have taken no food, they want none.
They lay dormant and insensible. but
soon the south wind will blow the
RESURRECTION TRUMPET,
and the air and the earth Will be full
Of them. DO you not think that God
a do as much for bodies as He
does for the wasps and the spiders
and the snaiIsp This morning at half
past 4 o'clock there was IA resurrection.
Out of the night. the day. In a few
weeks there will be "A resurrection in
all N gardens. Why not some day a
resurrection amid all the graves?
Ever and mon there are instances of
men and ONE %entranced.
a trance is death followed by resur-
rection after a few days: total suspen-
sion of mental power and voluntary ac-
ton.
REV. WILLIAM TENNENT,
a great evangelist of the last genera
ton, of whom DR.. Archibald Alexan-
der, G mar far from being sentimental,
wrote in most enlogistic terms-Rev.
VIM. Tennent seemed to die. His
spirit departed. People came in day
after day, and said: He is dead! he is
dead!' But the soul that fled returned.
and William Tennent lived to write
out the experiences of what he had
seer while his soul vas gone. 1t may
be found sometime that what is called
suspended animation or c0matose state
is brief death, giving the soul an exeur
sion into the next world from which it
comes back, a Through OF a few hours
granted from che conflict of life TO
which it must return. Do not this
waking up of men from trance, and
this waking up of insects from water
lifelessness. and this waking up of
grains buried 5000 years ago, make it
easier for you to believe that your body
and mine. after the vacation Of the
grave, shall rouse and rally, though
there be 5000 years between our last
breath and the sounding Of the
ARCHANGELIC REvEmLE?
Psychologists tell us that while. the
Of our bodies are built with such
economy that we can spare
nothing, and the loss of a finger is a
hinderment, and the injury of a. toe
Joint makes us lame, still that we have
two or three useless physical apparati,
and no anatomist or p~hysiologis. has
ever been able to tell what they are
good for. They are no doubt the foun-
dation of the resurrection body. worth
nothing to us in this state, to be indis-
pensably valuable in TIE nexs state.
The Jewish rabbins had only a hint of
this suggestion when they SAID that in